An experimental study of constant-pressure steam injection and transient condensing flow in an air-saturated porous medium

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 449-454

  Brouwers, H J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Condensation; Moving boundaries; Porous media

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE; QUARTZ; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); STEAM; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

AIR SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; CONSTANT PRESSURE STEAM INJECTION; DRY QUARTZ SAND; GLASS TUBES; TRANSIENT CONDENSING FLOW; WATER SATURATION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CONDENSING; FLOW; INJECTION-STEAM; POROUS MEDIA;

EID: 0029676354     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2825865     Document Type: Article

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